[microblaze-uclinux] Back on the air

[John Williams <jwilliams@itee.uq.edu.au>]

Hi everyone,

Well I'm back after my North American tour, conferences on 
Reconfigurable Computing (ERSA in Las Vegas, what a strange place!) and 
System-on-Chip (IWSOC in Calgary, love those Canadian Rockies!), plus 
meetings with Xilinx and some other uClinux/microblaze interested parties.

I was pushing the uclinux stuff pretty hard, lots of interest and plenty 
of potential new users and developers.  My poster at ERSA was basically 
an advert for this project, and I shoe-horned my presentation at IWSOC 
around to it as well!

Xilinx are aware of this project and the interest that it is generating, 
they are watching with interest to see where it goes.

I have a few organisation things I want to attend to before getting back 
into the details of finishing the port.

First of all, I gather there are still some issure re: the various 
patches and inconsistencies in the "getting started" instructions.  It 
is vital that we get this stuff right so that all users are on the same 
page.

If anybody has any experiences, positive or negative, on following these 
steps and so on, please let me know.  Even better, if you would like to 
contribute by updating the instructions, or providing advice on managing 
the patch process and so on, I'd dearly love to hear from you.

Secondly, I'm working with my webmasters on hosting a publicly 
accessible Bugzilla server, so we can track and manage bugs and 
incomplete aspects of the port.  As other developers emerge they can 
take responsibility for bug fixes etc as they feel comfortable.  I hope 
to have some progress on this in the next week or two.

As I have said before, I don't have a lot of experience at managing a 
distributed open source development project, so if there's anyone out 
there who does, or would like to get involved in some aspect of this, 
then again I'd love to hear from you.

All contributions will be met by offers of free beer (or food/drinks of 
your choice!) if you ever visit Australia, as well as the promise of 
having your name all over any stuff that you contribute!  Not to mention 
the warm inner glow that comes from assisting an open-source project! :)

That's all for now, I'll be back soon with a technical update and 
hopefully a more detailed plan for the next couple of months.

Cheers,

John


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